New Resonances

How is music shaped by the architectures and geographies we hear it in? What are the resonances between the politics, acoustics, memories, and publics that constitute spaces, and the music that is composed for them?

Classical music has co-evolved with the infrastructures for its dissemination — the church, the chamber, the concert hall, radio, and digital recording. Now, in the search for new audiences and ways of listening, the classical tradition is increasingly being taken beyond chambers and concert halls into spaces not designed for it, and parts of the city it was previously absent from. Can old music be transformed by bringing it into new settings with rituals that disrupt the concert format, or do these places require radical new sounds that respond to their own resonances?

In this three-day colloquium, we debate and experiment with the ways that classical music resonates with architecture. A series of panel-led discussions, performances, interventions and working groups bring together composers, architects, researchers, artists and acousticians to discuss the potentials and problems in new geographies of classical music.

New Resonances is organised by Theatrum Mundi and the Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, as part of the Interfaces project supported by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union. Additional programming and advisory support has been given by Sound and Music.

When do I disappear? Brian Eno in conversation with Richard Sennett
Thursday 11 October, 19.00 – 20.30
Fully booked

New Resonances: Publics and Politics
Friday 12 October, 11.30 – 18.00
Free, booking required

New Resonances: Acoustics and Memories
Saturday 13 October, 11.30 – 18.00
Free, booking required